Morality, Hope and Grief

• Paperback | Engels | Epistemologies of Healing | nr. 7
• The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has been addressed and perceived predominantly through the broad perspectives of social and economic theor... Lees meer

Plants, Health and Healing

• Hardcover | Engels | Epistemologies of Healing | nr. 6
• Plants have cultural histories, as their applications change over time and with place. Some plant species have affected human cultures in profound way... Lees meer

Precious Pills

Audrey Prost

• Hardcover | Engels | Epistemologies of Healing | nr. 2
• Through an ethnography of the social and medical worlds of a community of Tibetan refugees in India, this book addresses two main questions: first, ho... Lees meer

Conjuring Hope

Galina Lindquist

• Hardcover | Engels | Epistemologies of Healing | nr. 1
• Notions of magic and healing have been changing over past years and are now understood as reflecting local ideas of power and agency, as well as struc... Lees meer

Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities

Dominik Mattes

• Hardcover | Engels | Epistemologies of Healing | nr. 18
• Set in Tanga, a city on the Tanzanian Swahili coast, Dominik Mattes examines the implementation of antiretroviral HIV-treatment (ART) in the area, exp... Lees meer

Asymmetrical Conversations

• Hardcover | Engels | Epistemologies of Healing | nr. 14
• Ideas about health are reinforced by institutions and their corresponding practices, such as donning a patient's gown in a hospital or prostrating bef... Lees meer

The Land Is Dying

Paul Wenzel Geissler, Ruth Jane Prince

• Hardcover | Engels | Epistemologies of Healing | nr. 5
• Based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explores life in and around a Luo-speaking village in western Kenya during a time of death.... Lees meer

The Land Is Dying

Paul Wenzel Geissler, Ruth Jane Prince

• Paperback | Engels | Epistemologies of Healing | nr. 5
• Based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explores life in and around a Luo-speaking village in western Kenya during a time of death.... Lees meer

The Body in Balance

• Paperback | Engels | Epistemologies of Healing | nr. 13
• Focusing on practice more than theory, this collection offers new perspectives for studying the so-called "humoral medical traditions," as they have f... Lees meer

Chinese Medicine in East Africa

Elisabeth Hsu

• Hardcover | Engels | Epistemologies of Healing | nr. 20
• Based on fieldwork conducted between 2001-2008 in urban East Africa, this book explores who the patients, practitioners and paraprofessionals doing Ch... Lees meer

Medicine Between Science and Religion

• Hardcover | Engels | Epistemologies of Healing | nr. 10
• There is a growing interest in studies that document the relationship between science and medicine - as ideas, practices, technologies and outcomes - ... Lees meer

Ritual Retellings

Isabell Herrman

• Hardcover | Engels | Epistemologies of Healing | nr. 16
• Belian is an exceptionally lively tradition of shamanistic curing rituals performed by the Luangans, a politically marginalized population of Indonesi... Lees meer

Morality, Hope and Grief

• Hardcover | Engels | Epistemologies of Healing | nr. 7
• The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has been addressed and perceived predominantly through the broad perspectives of social and economic theor... Lees meer

Plants, Health and Healing

• Paperback | Engels | Epistemologies of Healing | nr. 6
• Plants have cultural histories, as their applications change over time and with place. Some plant species have affected human cultures in profound way... Lees meer

The Body in Balance

• Hardcover | Engels | Epistemologies of Healing | nr. 13
• Focusing on practice more than theory, this collection offers new perspectives for studying the so-called "humoral medical traditions," as they have f... Lees meer

Conjuring Hope

Galina Lindquist

• Paperback | Engels | Epistemologies of Healing | nr. 1
• Notions of magic and healing have been changing over past years and are now understood as reflecting local ideas of power and agency, as well as struc... Lees meer

Healing Roots

Julie Laplante

• Hardcover | Engels | Epistemologies of Healing | nr. 15
• Umhlonyane , also known as Artemisia afra , is one of the oldest and best-documented indigenous medicines in South Africa. This bush, which grows wild... Lees meer

Working with Spirit

Jo Thobeka Wreford

• Hardcover | Engels | Epistemologies of Healing | nr. 3
• In the current model of health dispensation in South Africa there are two major paradigms, the spirit-inspired tradition of izangoma sinyanga and biom... Lees meer

Capturing Quicksilver

Arielle A Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Epistemologies of Healing | nr. 17
• Since the turn of the century Singapore has sustained a reputation for both austere governance and cutting-edge biomedical facilities and research. Se... Lees meer

Fragile Futures

Helle Samuelsen

• Hardcover | Engels | Epistemologies of Healing | nr. 22
• Caring for small children and the family in Burkina Faso is hard work. Although the health infrastructure in Burkina Faso is weak and many citizens fe... Lees meer

Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine

Martin Saxer

• Hardcover | Engels | Epistemologies of Healing | nr. 12
• Within a mere decade, hospital pharmacies throughout the Tibetan areas of the People's Republic of China have been converted into pharmaceutical compa... Lees meer

Fortune and the Cursed

Katherine Swancutt

• Hardcover | Engels | Epistemologies of Healing | nr. 11
• Innovation-making is a classic theme in anthropology that reveals how people fine-tune their ontologies, live in the world and conceive of it as they ... Lees meer

Configuring Contagion

• Hardcover | Engels | Epistemologies of Healing | nr. 19
• Expanding our understanding of contagion beyond the typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens the field to include the concept of b... Lees meer

Dances with Spiders

Karen Lüdtke

• Hardcover | Engels | Epistemologies of Healing | nr. 4
• For centuries, the rite of the tarantula was the only cure for those 'bitten' or 'possessed' by the mythic Apulian spider. Its victims had to dance to... Lees meer